We are using Amazon instance and seeing incredible performance. Setup not for the non-technical but in terms of price and performance absolutely tops. You can get companies to setup amazon hosting and monitor it for you if you want to benefit from the best there is out there.

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Been reading the forums for advise, i used 1and1 to setup my shop, however I read a few reviews and I know what a nightmare they can be so I have moved to heartinternet as based in the UK. I must say it seems a lot harder to setup on their services, their installer is the version before

willows wrote:We are using Amazon instance and seeing incredible performance. Setup not for the non-technical but in terms of price and performance absolutely tops. You can get companies to setup amazon hosting and monitor it for you if you want to benefit from the best there is out there.

can you elaborate on this point? I am looking into switching to reliable hosting.

I was with arvixe, pretty happy for months actually but then i don't know what happened the server i was on always had downtimes. Their support said it was a server stability issue or something and eventually suggested i should upgrade to a VPS or dedi (was on shared at the time). It was so damn annoying because it was not even proper downtime but 500 errors about resources exahausted and it happened several times a day randomly.

I decided to move to another host because i knew shared hosting was not a problem (was on their most expensive shared hosting package), a friend already was with hostgator and was okay with hosting me to try out their services (had heard so many terrible reviews about hostgator that they were never my first or even last choice) and to my surprise there hasn't been a single downtime, i don't want to jinx it but i am just amazed with how quick their service is. The hosting is shared as well (business class) and my friend's site gets about 800-1000 visitors/day, my site gets upto 10k at peak times and 4k/day, Back with arvixe, i was barely getting 1000 visitors and they said i needed to upgrade.

So i can highly recommend hostgator. Maybe it is just bad luck or i don't know why but arvixe was really good for a few months for me then went downhill and just outright terrible. I am glad i didn't buy a full year's hosting because whenever i would release a new product (traffic would get at its peak) the site would pop up those 500 errors and i would lose so many visitors, not to mention the terrible Google WMT error messages.

I think arvixe got terrible after they got popular, when their traffic got better (i checked their alexa) that was the time their service start to suck for me because they probably put a lot of users on the shared server i was on.

Im about to start my website, so hostgator is the way to go. Im looking at starting with their basic plan and then see how it goes from there, I have a couple of questions; What is their support like, has anyone had any issues with their service ie 500's, errors, poor load times etc.., any issues with with hostgator in terms of them shutting down the website.

mreuro666 wrote:Im about to start my website, so hostgator is the way to go. Im looking at starting with their basic plan and then see how it goes from there, I have a couple of questions; What is their support like, has anyone had any issues with their service ie 500's, errors, poor load times etc.., any issues with with hostgator in terms of them shutting down the website.

Hostgator support is well below standards now, a simple support ticket takes 1 to 2 days to be dealt with. To be honest, Hostgator is not anymore what it used to be, it has really gone downhill over the past 12 months or so. I would not recommend this webhost anymore.

@STN - I am sorry to hear you were not satisfied with our hosting services. Feel free to reach out to me (email in my signature) should you decide to leave your current host and I'll make sure to find the best solution for you.

If anyone else is interesting in our hosting services we are running a free 30 day demo trial on a free Arvixe sub-domain. Details can be found here: http://www.arvixe.com/opencart_demo

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STN wrote:I was with arvixe, pretty happy for months actually but then i don't know what happened the server i was on always had downtimes. Their support said it was a server stability issue or something and eventually suggested i should upgrade to a VPS or dedi (was on shared at the time). It was so damn annoying because it was not even proper downtime but 500 errors about resources exahausted and it happened several times a day randomly.

I decided to move to another host because i knew shared hosting was not a problem (was on their most expensive shared hosting package), a friend already was with hostgator and was okay with hosting me to try out their services (had heard so many terrible reviews about hostgator that they were never my first or even last choice) and to my surprise there hasn't been a single downtime, i don't want to jinx it but i am just amazed with how quick their service is. The hosting is shared as well (business class) and my friend's site gets about 800-1000 visitors/day, my site gets upto 10k at peak times and 4k/day, Back with arvixe, i was barely getting 1000 visitors and they said i needed to upgrade.

So i can highly recommend hostgator. Maybe it is just bad luck or i don't know why but arvixe was really good for a few months for me then went downhill and just outright terrible. I am glad i didn't buy a full year's hosting because whenever i would release a new product (traffic would get at its peak) the site would pop up those 500 errors and i would lose so many visitors, not to mention the terrible Google WMT error messages.

I think arvixe got terrible after they got popular, when their traffic got better (i checked their alexa) that was the time their service start to suck for me because they probably put a lot of users on the shared server i was on.

As was stated before we're sorry you had a bad experience. History has proven itself with all hosting companies that using shared hosting with any hosting company can be a difficult for online stores in terms of up time and consistency. If Arvixe, or Host Gator, or In Motion decides to stack on 500 more users on my server then there is nothing I can do about it especially if one of those users is using resource intensive software. We hope that you have a better experience soon.

yoginetindia wrote:I believe that if you are looking to host multiple domains then go Company which can offer multiple IP Hosting . It will help you in SEO . For example try out hosting from IX web host .

Having multiple IP addreses doesn't really have a difference in terms of SEO. However, if an IP was really wanted most hosting providers will offer it to you be it with an SSL certificate or not. We offer dedicated IP addresses just for +$2 per month per IP.